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Tracing and monitoring considerations
The ability to configure tracing and monitoring at different levels for a variety of system components can be extremely valuable during periods of system analysis or debugging.
The Business Process Management product set provides rich monitoring capabilities, both in terms of business monitoring using the Common Event Interface (CEI) and audit logging, and system performance monitoring using the Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI) and Application Response Measurement (ARM). Although these capabilities provide insight into the performance of the running solution, these features can degrade overall system performance and throughput. Therefore, use tracing and monitoring judiciously, and when possible, turn it off entirely to ensure optimal performance.
Most tracing and monitoring is controlled using the WebSphere Application Server administrative console. Verify that the appropriate level of tracing and monitoring is set for PMI monitoring, logging, and tracing in the administrative console.
Use the administrative console to check that the Audit logging and Common Event Infrastructure logging check boxes are clear in the Business Process container, unless these capabilities are required for business reasons. For performance work, turn off monitoring completely, unless the data being recorded is of value.
IBM Integration Designer is also used to control event monitoring. Check the Event Monitor tab for your components and business processes to ensure that event monitoring is applied carefully.